Coby Bell

While television pundits work themselves into an honors-English lather deconstructing the minutiae of "Breaking Bad's" final episodes, let us pause for a moment, crack a window and possibly a beer, and consider Thursday's final episode of USA's "Burn Notice," a show that had profoundly altered the television landscape before Walter White was barely a mad gleam in Vince Gilligan's eye.

USA was the network that "Monk" built when "Burn Notice" debuted in 2007, and though Matt Nix's tale of kicked-to-the-curb spy Michael Westen (Jeffrey Donovan) shared a few of "Monk's" DNA markers — an emotionally burdened lead character with a specific...

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While television pundits work themselves into an honors-English lather deconstructing the minutiae of "Breaking Bad's" final episodes, let us pause for a moment, crack a window and possibly a beer, and consider Thursday's final episode of USA's "Burn...